First 

 Journey. 



race of the 

 country. 



V/ANDERINGS IN 



The road for horses runs parallel to the river, but 

 it extends a very little way, and even ends before the 

 cultivation of the plantations ceases. 



The only mode then that remains, is to proceed by 

 water; and when you come to the high lands, you may 

 make your way through the forest on foot, or continue 

 your route on the river. 



After passing the third island in the river Demerara, 

 there are few plantations to be seen, and those not 

 joining on to one another^, but separated by large tracts 

 of wood. 



The Loo is the last where the sugar-cane is growing. 

 The greater part of its negroes have just been ordered to 

 another estate ; and ere a few months shall have elapsed, 

 all signs of cultivation will be lost in underwood. 



Higher up stand the sugar-works of Amelia's Waard, 

 solitaly and abandoned ! and after passing these, there is 

 not a ruin to inform the traveller, that either coffee or 

 sugar have ever been cultivated. 



From Amelia's Waard, an unbroken range of forest 

 covers each bank of the river, saving here and there 

 where a hut discovers itself, inhabited by free people of 

 colour, with a rood or two of bared ground about it ; 

 or where the wood- cutter has erected himself a dwelling, 

 and cleared a few acres for pasturage. Sometimes you 

 see level ground on each side of you, for two or three 

 hours at a stretch ; at other times, a gently sloping hill 



